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GOMPARTMENT PAPER BAG.

No. 471,255. Patented Mar. Z2, 1892.

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W. A. LoRENz. GOMPIARTMENT PAPER BAG.

Patented Mar. 22, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. LORENZ, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO VILLIAM H. HONISS, OF SAME RLACE.

COMPARTNIENT PAPER BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,255, dated March 22, 1892. Application tiled May 6, 1891. Serial No. 391.756. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. LORENZ, of Hartford, Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Compartment Paper Bag, of which the following description and claims constitute the specification, and which is illustrated by the accompanying two sheets of drawings.

This invention is a collapsed compartment bag consisting of a main rectangular wall and of a plicated sheet pasted at parallel intervals to one side of the main wall and attached to the main wall at right angles to those intervals, so as to constitute a series of compartments plicated at their sides and closed at their lower ends.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a View of a rectangular sheet of paper provided with thelongitudinal paste-lines 1, 2, 3, and 4 and with the pasted surfaces 5. Fig. 2 is a View of another rectangular piece of paper of a size to adaptit, when folded, to be joined to the blank n of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are an end and a plan view, respectively, of the blank of Fig. 2, plicated along the dot-and-dash lines thereof. Fig. 5 is a View of the blank of Figs. 3 and 4 pressed down upon the middle part of the blank of Fig. 1 over the longitudinal pastelines 1, 2, 3, and 4, so as to unite the longitudinal surfaces 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the blank of Figs. 3 and 4 to the blank of Fig. 1 along those paste-lines. Fig. 6 is a view of the blank of Fig. 5, with the lower flap 10 of that blank folded over and pasted down upon the lower end of the body of the blank. Fig. 7 is a view of the right-hand edge of the blank of Fig. 6, and those two figures represent a complete paper bag, having the series of compartments A, B, and C and the upper'flap D. Fig. 8 is a view of the right-hand edge of the blank of Figs. 6 and 7, with the compartments A, B, and C expanded. Fig. 9 is a cross-section of that bag on the line a b of Fig. 8, and Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the same bag in the same expanded condition. Fig. 11 is a View of a paper bag having two groups of compartments A, B, and C and E, F, and G 1united with their mouths toward each other by a middle reach of paper H. Each group of compartments is made substantially like the group A, B, and C of Fig. 6, but they are placed so that a compartment in one group, instead of the foregoing description thereof; but they being directly opposite to a compartment in another group, is opposite to the space between two compartments in that other group. Fig. 12 is a view of the right-hand edge of the bag of Fig. 11 before the compartments are expanded. Fig. 13 is a View of what is shown in Fig. 12 after the compartments are expanded. Fig. 14 is a view of the Abag of Fig. 13 when the two groups of compartments are iilled with cigars and folded over toward each other face to face and united by the middle reach H, as by a double hinge. Fig. 15 is a cross-section on the line a b of Fig. 14, showing six cigars occupying the compartments A, B, C, E, F, and G, respectively. Fig. 16 1s a view of aV paper bag having two groups of compartments A, B, and C and E, F, and G united side by side by a middle reach of paper H and provided with an upper flap D, extending along the mouths of all the compartments in both groups. Fig. 17 is a view of the right-hand edge of the bag of Fig. 16 before the compartments are expanded, and Fig. 18 is a view of what is shown in Fig. 17 after the compartments are expanded. Fig. 19 1s a perspective view of the bag of Figs. 6 and 7, and Fig. 2O isa perspective view of the bag of Fig. 19 withone of its compartments expanded by a cigar thrust therein.

These compartment paper bags may be manufactured by hand by cutting, folding, and pasting paper in the ways indicated in the figures of the drawings and explained in may be much more cheaply and rapidly made by machinery, which I have invented or am inventing for the purpose.

The forms of the bag shown in Figs 6, 11, and 16 are ready for use in the plicated and collapsed condition therein indicated. Vhere the bag of Fig. 6 is used for cigars, a cigar is inserted, point downward, in each of the compartments A, B, and C, and that insertion operates to expand those compartments from the collapsed condition of Fig. 7 to the extended condition of Fig. 8.' Then the flap D may be folded down over the upper ends of those compartments, so as to cover the larger ends of the cigars. The manner of using the bag of Figs. 11 and 12 is the same, except that the cigars are placed in lboth groups of ICO compartments, and then those filled compartments are folded over upon each other, asindicated in Fig. 14. Then the bag of Fig. 1G is used for cigars, the cigars are in like manner thrust point downward into the two groups of compartments A, B, and C and E, F, and G, and those iilled groups of compartments are folded face to face together along the middle reach H, either with or without first folding'l so as to constitute a series of compartments plcated at their sides and closed at their lower ends, all substantially as described.

2. A collapsed compartment bag consisting of a main rectangular wall and a plicated sheet fastened at parallel intervals to one side ofthe main wall and attached to the main wall at right angles to those parallel intervals, so as to constitute a series of compartments plieated attheir sides and closed at their lower ends, the compartments in a series being arranged in two or more parallel groups sepa-rated from each other by a plain reach of paper adapted to serve as a wide hinge upon which the groups maybe folded toward each other without crowding the articles which may be contained inthe compartments, all substantially as described.

lVlLLlAM A. LORENZ. lVitnesses:

ALBERT Il. WALKER, P. A. PnELrs. 

